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Category: TV

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 13, 2018

Star Trek: Short Treks “The Brightest Star”

It’s time for another installment of Short Treks, AKA the mini-episodes of Star Trek: Discovery being released monthly in the lead-up to January’s season premiere. And unlike the previous two Short Treks, “Runaway” and “Calypso”, the synopsis for “The Brightest…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Dec 12, 2018

Xena: Warrior Princess “A Solstice Carol”

One of the charms of Xena: Warrior Princess, as well as its progenitor Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, is how episodes could alternate from charming romps to dark dramas. This episode certainly falls into the former category, since (as…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 29, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager “Tsunkatse”

As I continue my look back at Star Trek: Voyager, I’ve been focusing mainly on the terrible episodes, but I have to admit that this current episode really isn’t all that terrible. In fact, for anyone who was watching…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 12, 2018

Star Trek: Short Treks “Calypso”

Here we go with another installment of Short Treks, the mini-episodes that are being released only on CBS All Access to help build anticipation for January’s season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. And I feel like the trailer for…

· by Thomas Ricard · Oct 23, 2018

Top 10 episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? (#1-#5)

Halloween is upon us, which is why I’m counting down the ten best episodes of the ’90s Nickelodeon series Are You Afraid of the Dark? In case you missed it, you can read part one of this list here. #5 …

· by Thomas Ricard · Oct 18, 2018

Top 10 episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? (#6-#10)

Halloween season is upon us, so you know what that means: Drunk costume parties, an excuse to buy a truckload of candy for trick-or-treaters only to eat most of it yourself, and of course, binging on old horror or Halloween-related…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 16, 2018

Star Trek: Short Treks "Runaway"

To build up hype for January’s second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, CBS All Access will be posting a series of “Short Treks” over the next few months. These are basically the service’s latest attempt to drag the…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Oct 11, 2018

Star Trek "Catspaw"

October is here again, and for many, that means the start of Halloween season. So why not look at the only episode in Star Trek franchise history that was an actual Halloween episode? This is the reason “Catspaw”, actually the…

· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2018

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

In an unprecedented step for the Star Trek franchise, it’s been announced that Sir Patrick Stewart will trek through the stars once again in a new series about the further adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was a natural choice…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 24, 2018

You Can’t Do That on Television (1979-1990)

You Can’t Do That on Television is a Canadian series which initially aired on the CTV station in Ottawa in 1979. Just two years later, it began broadcasting on American TV via the cable network Nickelodeon. Cable TV itself was…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 10, 2018

Xena: Warrior Princess “Callisto”

I’ve noted before that, despite being a spin-off of another show, Xena: Warrior Princess didn’t take long to become the syndicated ratings champion of the 1990s as Star Trek: The Next Generation had been before it. There were many reasons…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Aug 7, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: The 5-episode wedding arc from hell

As I noted in my previous recap, the third season of Lois & Clark began promisingly by surprising the viewers in the best possible way. In this case, it was Lois responding to Clark’s marriage proposal by revealing that she…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 26, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman "We Have a Lot to Talk About"

By the end of its second season, Lois & Clark was becoming more of a ratings hit. One reason for this was that the title characters were starting to become more romantic with each other by this point. The only…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 13, 2018

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”

With Harvey Weinstein’s career still in ruins and the #MeToo movement now being targeted by Donald Trump (although I guess that was inevitable), I felt prompted to look at an interesting episode from Lois & Clark‘s fourth and final…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jun 7, 2018

Star Trek: Voyager "Unforgettable"

If you’ve been following my recent Voyager recaps, you may have noticed I’ve been trying to spread the snark around a bit. So far, I’ve recapped a Neelix episode, a Tom Paris episode, a Janeway episode, and a Harry Kim…

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· by Marion Stein · Jun 1, 2018

The Americans: Casablanca and EST

“START”, the almost perfect finale of The Americans, offers its surviving characters a shot at redemption, and an ending to a seasonal arc in which Mischa and Nadezhda finally have a mission worthy of their talents. We pick up…

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· by Marion Stein · May 25, 2018

The Americans: Smoke gets in your eyes

The title of the penultimate episode, “Jennings, Elizabeth” had half the fans convinced it foretold a death. It did. By the episode’s end, Nadezhda and Mischa, those two young idealists now grown into weary middle age, are hitting the road.…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 24, 2018

Riverdale: It's not over yet

Buckle your seatbelts, everyone! It’s the season finale of Riverdale and hopefully, we’ll gets answers to the real Archie’s Weird Mysteries that I want solved. At the very least, we should find out if Jughead is really dead after that…

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· by Marion Stein · May 19, 2018

The Americans: Burn baby burn

In “The Summit”, the nearly perfect eighth episode of the final season (perfection would have included Oleg), Elizabeth finally puts humanity ahead of mission. The build-up has been going on for a while. The suspense was in wondering whether the…

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· by Susan Velazquez · May 12, 2018

Riverdale: Not-so-quiet riot

Poor Cheryl has had a rough year. Her twin brother was murdered by her father, her family fortune was temporarily lost when her father was outed as a drug dealer, her mother stuck her in a gay conversion program, she…